Science Daily: In a large clinical trial to determine the risks and benefits of daily low-dose aspirin in healthy older adults without previous cardiovascular events, aspirin did not prolong healthy, independent living (life free of dementia or persistent physical disability). Risk of dying from a range of causes, including cancer and heart disease, varied and…
Tech Explorist: In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) proposed a definition of a planet that left out Pluto, causing it to lose status and relegate it as a dwarf planet. Since Neptune’s gravity impacts its neighboring planet Pluto, and Pluto imparts its circle to solidified gases and protests in the Kuiper belt, that implied…
Desk Report: Creating enough jobs, improving investment climate and ensuring financial stability would be major challenges for Bangladesh to meet her post-LDC (least developing country) requirements, opined economists and businesses, reports The Financial Express. For a sustainable transition to the developing country status, the country must seriously focus on ICT (information and communication technology) sector,…
BSS: India yesterday handed over its third phase of humanitarian assistance to Bangladesh for helping in its efforts to meet the requirements of displaced Rohingyas influx from Myanmar last year. Indian High Commissioner Harsh Vardhan Shringla handed over 1.1 million litres of Super Kerosene Oil (SKO) and 20,000 Kerosene Multi Wick Stoves to Bangladesh’s…
Al Jazeera: Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry Khaled el-Enany announced. The sphinx, a mythical being with the head of a human and the body of a lion, was discovered at the Kom Ombo…
Desk Report: Economists, civil society members and intellectuals have demanded that Bangladesh Bank’s Governor Fazle Kabir must immediately apologize for not including father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s photographs in the book on the central bank’s history, reports The Asian Age. Moreover, it has been found that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s contribution for…
Hannah Fry, British mathematician, lecturer on the Mathematics of Cities and a public speaker/The Guardian, UK As we delegate technology more responsibility to diagnose illness or identify suspects, we must regulate it Robert Jones was driving home through the pretty town of Todmorden, in West Yorkshire, when he noticed the fuel light flashing on the…
Rueters: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte repeated his call on Monday to shut all mines in the country following deadly landslides, hours after his minister halted all small-scale mining in a mountainous gold-rich region. “If I were to try to do my thing I will close all mining in the Philippines,” he said, presiding over a…
Russia Today: Health workers in Syria’s Idlib protested the assault and attacks by Bashar al-Assad regime and its supporters on hospitals and health centers on Sunday. They gathered in front of ATME Hospital in Idlib city center near Turkey-Syria border. Over 500 doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers attended the protest. Chanting slogans, the protestors were…
Desk Report: Bangladesh has been ranked the least innovative country and Singapore the most innovative in Asia, reports The daily Star. The lower ranking innovative countries — Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan — will benefit from more innovation in the future, according to the Global Innovation Index 2018 report. Bangladesh along with Myanmar and…